Published in
"Untangling Coma Berenices: A New Vision of an Old Cluster",
Proceedings of the meeting held in Marseilles (France), June 17-20,
1997, Eds.: Mazure, A., Casoli F., Durret F. , Gerbal D., Word
Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd. The LEVEL5 version is a reformated
text available from
http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711251
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OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER
(A HISTORICAL REVIEW)
Andrea BIVIANO
Istituto Te.S.R.E.,
Area della Ricerca del CNR, via Gobetti 101, I-40129 BOLOGNA
E-mail:
abiviano@iso.vilspa.esa.es
Abstract.
In this paper I describe
how our knowledge and understanding of the properties and structure of
the Coma cluster of galaxies has evolved through the
years, since early
this century, when the first maps of the density of nebulæ
in the Coma region were produced, and until the present time.
It is shown that most of the recent discoveries that have led to a change
in our view of this cluster, were in fact anticipated very early on.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: WHY COMA?
- COMA: AN OLD FRIEND
- The Myth
- The Coma cluster of nebulæ
- WEIGHING COMA
- Zwicky's Heresy
- More Data!
- Beyond the Virial Theorem
- MORE LIGHT ON COMA
- LOOKING INTO THE DARK
- No Dark Matter?
- Diffuse Light
- Diffuse Gas
- Diffuse Dust
- Galaxy Halos
- Particles
- THE TIDY COMA: A PLACE FOR EACH GALAXY
- Luminosity segregation
- Spirals in Coma?
- Velocity Segregation
- SLICING COMA
- The SW Group
- Subclusters in the Core
- The Radio Halo Coma C
- AN OLD VISION OF A NEW CLUSTER: SUMMARY AND
CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
